Despite hostility both on the left and in his own party, President Nicolas Sarkozy's government easily won the parliamentary vote.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the deal went ahead despite "hostility and trouble" from the United States and claimed "any change in the future is unlikely".
Cameron, instinctively opposed to public health laws and fresh regulation, is said to be edging towards a minimum price despite hostility from the drinks industry and supermarkets.
Despite hostility in Congress, especially among Democrats, Mr. Orszag predicted that the proposal would get "an embrace from those who are most concerned about eliminating unnecessary spending" because "the fiscal context has changed" and "deficits have become a growing concern".
Last week the 56-year-old's audacious €29bn takeover bid for Arcelor, the world's second biggest steelmaker, succeeded despite hostility from the governments of France and Luxembourg, where many of its plants were based.
DESPITE hostility from many foreign governments and airlines the European Union last month went ahead and introduced a requirement for airlines to buy permits to cover the carbon-dioxide emissions of all flights into and out of European airports, including the portion of those flights that is outside EU airspace.
By the time of his death in 1610, despite hostility in some quarters, Jesuit communities were established in many cities of south and central China, a church had been built in Beijing under imperial patronage, and Christianity was known and respected by many Chinese scholar-officials.
When they have pressed ahead with new regulations, they have tried to be flexible, providing for an extended grace period to meet the mercury standards, for example, and preserving a trading scheme for interstate air pollution despite hostility from the courts.The courts, in fact, are the source of the worst uncertainty surrounding environmental regulation.
A narrow majority of the 731 MEPs, perhaps 30 to 40, was preparing to defy arm-twisting by Tony Blair, Germany's Gerhard Schröder and other EU leaders to back Mr Barroso despite hostility to his choice of Rocco Buttiglione as the justice commissioner and serious doubts over the competence of four other commissioners.
"I proudly offer this award to the people of my country," he went on, "a people who respect all cultures and civilizations despite hostility and resentment".
